Qatari driver Nasser Al Attiyah took the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday after South African Giniel de Villiers won the fifth stage.
French motorcyclist Pascal Terry was found dead on the route of the Dakar rally, organisers said on Wednesday.
American Mark Miller and South African co-driver Ralph Pitchford recorded the fourth best time of the day in the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally.
Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah won the first stage of the Dakar Rally from a posse of Volkswagens led by former world champion Carlos Sainz on Saturday.
The 2009 Dakar Rally gets under way on Saturday with the gruelling two-week event switched from terror-threatened Africa to South America.